Mt. Sion
Definition
Mt. Sion in George Warnock’s b9 does not refer merely to the geographical hill in Jerusalem but to the heavenly reality described in Heb. 12:22-24: “You have come to Mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.” Mt. Sion is God’s heavenly dwelling, the place where angels, the church of the firstborn, and Jesus Christ Himself gather. This is not future but present — believers already dwell spiritually in Mt. Sion while they are still physically on earth.
In George Warnock’s b9, Mt. Sion is the eschatological given that the church need not await in the future but may inhabit in the present. It forms the foundation for eschatological tension and for the task of overcomers: dwelling spiritually in Mt. Sion and from there justifying the earth.
George Warnock (b9)
Warnock places Mt. Sion at the center of his eschatology:
“We have not come to Mount Sinai with its terrors and thunderings, but to Mount Sion — the city of the living God. This is our inheritance. This is our appointed place.”
(The Vision and the Appointment, Eschatology, Chapter 4)
Mt. Sion is the present spiritual reality of the overcoming church. Not mystical escape from the world, but participation in heavenly reality while still on earth.